My goodness, at this precise moment my dear little collection’s esteemed audience stands a

My goodness, at this precise moment my dear little collection’s esteemed audience stands at an astounding eight thousand followers! I never even imagined it might make eight hundred, I was honestly pleased with achieving but eighty, and now look at you all! I thank each and every one for your interest, your sharing and showing your admiration of the photographs, and all the kind messages of appreciation; and I fervently hope you’ve all found plenty to enjoy in what you’ve seen here over the last couple of years.
I have been unable to find you a photograph of eight men together, to mark today’s total the way I did some other significant figures, so allow me to cheat just a little and present eight exposures of the same man, in a Marey Wheel photograph by Thomas Eakins, circa 1884.